Parsing Immigration Policy
246 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★ - 31 ratingsA weekly discussion of immigration policy matters, both immediate and long-term, with researchers from the Center for Immigration Studies and guests.The Center for Immigration Studies is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit, research organization. Since our founding in 1985 by Otis Graham Jr., we have pursued a single mission – providing immigration policymakers, the academic community, news media, and concerned citizens with reliable information about the social, economic, environmental, security, and fiscal consequences of legal and illegal immigration into the United States.
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Chinese Organized Crime Takes Root in Vacationland
April 18, 2024 15:48 - 53 minutes - 74.1 MBThis week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy features Steve Robinson, editor-in-chief of the Maine Wire, a digital investigative news outlet, who joins our guest host, Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies. The two experts discuss how Chinese criminal organizations have established illegal weed grows using trafficked labor of illegal aliens, and the effect on Maine communities. Robinson has been investigating this problem for months, since the...
The State of Border Security: A Look from the Mexico Side
April 12, 2024 14:33 - 29 minutes - 40.2 MBIn this week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, Todd Bensman, the Center’s senior national security fellow, joins us live from Juarez, Mexico. Bensman takes us into La Linea Cartel territory, where he is investigating the smuggling of dangerous criminals into the United States. Reporting from the Mexican side of the border, opposite El Paso, Bensman offers a firsthand account of migrant activity from the area where just two weeks ago hundreds of migrants pushed past Texas law enforcem...
The Size and Growth of the Immigrant Population in the U.S.
April 04, 2024 14:51 - 41 minutes - 56.7 MBThe starting point of any conversation about immigration should be the numbers. This week’s episode of the Center for Immigration Studies podcast highlights a recent report co-authored by Steven Camarota, the Center’s director of research, which examines the number and share of the foreign-born in the United States. The total foreign-born population, encompassing both legal and illegal immigrants, has soared to a record high of 51.4 million as of February 2024, marking a monumental increase ...
Is the New USCIS Fee Schedule Fair?
March 28, 2024 11:47 - 37 minutes - 51.3 MBIn today’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, Elizabeth Jacobs, the Center’s Director of Regulatory Affairs and Policy, does a deep dive into her recent analysis of the new U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) fee schedule, set to take effect on April 1, 2024. Jacobs discusses how the 2024 fee rule is being leveraged to advance Biden's policy objectives, ignoring the requirement that USCIS fees should be commensurate with the costs of processing specific applications. As US...
Kaus on Immigration Politics
March 21, 2024 14:44 - 39 minutes - 54.9 MBCampaign season is in full swing as the 2024 presidential election looms less than eight months away. According to a recent Gallup poll, immigration is considered the biggest issue facing the country, with a majority of Americans expressing disapproval of the president’s handling of the issue. In today’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, host Mark Krikorian, the Center’s executive director, dives into the politics of the immigration issue alongside journalist and author Mickey Kaus. As...
Straight Talk on Biden’s Parole Flights
March 14, 2024 14:57 - 32 minutes - 45.1 MBSince September 2023, the Center for Immigration Studies has been on the forefront of reporting on the Biden administration direct-flight and parole program that has authorized the arrival of more than 320,000 inadmissible aliens through the CBP One app. The program allows migrants to take commercial passenger flights from foreign countries straight to their American cities of choice, without having to go to the southern land border. The program has largely operated under the radar until the ...
Combatting Illegal Immigration on the State and Local Level
March 07, 2024 17:26 - 39 minutes - 54.1 MBOn this week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, joins us to discuss what states and other local jurisdictions can do to combat illegal immigration in wake of the Biden administration’s refusal to enforce immigration laws. Vaughan joins us from the Western States Sheriffs’ Association convention in Reno, Nev. Vaughan provides suggestions to states and localities on policies and laws that can be implemente...
Trump and Biden Head to Border Amid Speculation of ‘Bold’ Executive Action on Immigration
February 29, 2024 15:31 - 32 minutes - 45.1 MBPresident Biden and former President Trump are both scheduled to visit Texas border towns today, just as polling reveals widespread dissatisfaction with the president’s handling of the border and immigration. With the failure of the Senate border bill and growing concern over the record number of border crossers, news reports suggest President Biden may announce executive actions that would stem the border crisis his policies created. This week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy welcome...
Report: Can U.S. Farm Workers Be Replaced by Machines?
February 22, 2024 18:42 - 37 minutes - 51.7 MBA Center for Immigration Studies report and companion podcast episode, “Can U.S. Farm Workers be Replaced by Machines? Mechanizing Fruit and Vegetable Production,” provide historical context as well as analysis of current challenges and prospects for farm labor and mechanization. Both the report and the discussion explain the options available to replace U.S. farm workers - machines, H-2A guestworkers, and imports. The report outlines how rising labor costs have historically driven the adopt...
The Democrats’ Immigration Evolution
February 15, 2024 18:06 - 42 minutes - 57.7 MBOn this week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, we are joined by Ruy Teixeira, co-author with John Judis of last fall’s book, Where Have All the Democrats Gone?: The Soul of the Party in the Age of Extremes. Teixeira, currently a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, worked from 2003 to 2022 as a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning public policy research and advocacy organization. Teixeira explains that Democrats were not always proponents of...
Senate Border Bill Update
February 07, 2024 20:08 - 37 minutes - 51.3 MBThe Senate bill that would provide billions of dollars’ worth of funding to Ukraine in exchange for increased border security measures is unlikely to pass into law, but certain provisions from the bill may make their way into future border legislation. Andrew Arthur, the Center for Immigration Studies’ Resident Fellow in Law and Policy and former counsel for the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees, joins Parsing Immigration Policy to discuss the border bill with our host and executive di...
European Lessons for America’s Mass Migration Crisis
February 01, 2024 10:30 - 34 minutes - 46.7 MBThis Week's episode of the Parsing Immigration Podcast offers key findings from a European field-research trip by Todd Bensman, the Center’s national security fellow. Bensman was a visiting fellow at the Budapest-based Migration Research Institute, and examined borders in Hungary, Slovenia, Poland, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Greece. Bensman’s research revealed a resurgence of illegal human traffic along the “Western Balkan Route”, reminiscent of the 2015-2016 crisi...
Panel Podcast: Asylum in the U.S. and Europe
January 25, 2024 15:56 - 49 minutes - 68.5 MBThe Center for Immigration Studies hosted a panel discussion examining present asylum laws in the United States and in Europe, how they work, their impact on illegal immigration, and proposals for reform. Members of the newly formed International Network for Immigration Research (INIR), which includes like-minded think tanks in the U.S., Israel, Hungary, France, and the UK, discussed how their countries are navigating their current asylum crises and address the shared challenge of immigration...
How States Can Fight Human Trafficking
January 18, 2024 12:58 - 36 minutes - 49.5 MBAs January marks Human Trafficking Prevention Month, the Center for Immigration Studies releases a second podcast interview focused on the subject. This week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy features Frank Russo, director of the CPAC Foundation’s Center for Combatting Human Trafficking, who joins our guest host, Jessica Vaughan, director of Policy Studies at the Center for Immigration Studies. The two experts discuss the challenges, initiatives, and policy considerations involved in co...
Florida Grand Jury: Biden Putting Alien Children in Harm’s Way
January 11, 2024 14:34 - 49 minutes - 67.4 MBJanuary is Human Trafficking Prevention Month, and with this episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, we seek to bring more awareness to the issue as it pertains to immigration. Our guest host this week is Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, and she is joined by Richard Mantei, special counsel and statewide prosecutor with the Florida Office of the Attorney General. Mantei recently served as legal advisor to a Florida grand jury that was convened t...
2023 Immigration Roundup and 2024 Predictions
January 04, 2024 16:28 - 49 minutes - 68.1 MBToday’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy features experts from the Center for Immigration Studies discussing immigration highlights of 2023. Mark Krikorian, the Center’s executive director and host of the podcast, is joined by Director of Investigations Jon Feere and Senior National Security Fellow Todd Bensman. Krikorian identifies the top story of the year as the record-breaking number of illegal aliens at the border, with 3.2 million encounters of inadmissible aliens, double the pre-...
The Flores Settlement and the Border Crisis
December 21, 2023 17:27 - 40 minutes - 55.5 MBThe border crisis has reached historic levels under the Biden administration, but one of the many roots of this crisis extends beyond the current administration. This episode of Parsing Immigration Policy highlights the Flores settlement, an agreement that established requirements for the federal government’s detention of unaccompanied alien children (UACs) and requires their release “without unnecessary delay”. This week, we are joined by Hart Celler, the pseudonym of a Marine Corps veteran ...
Panel Podcast: The Size and Implications of the Immigrant Population
December 14, 2023 13:06 - 39 minutes - 54.5 MBThe Center for Immigration Studies hosted a panel discussion December 11. The featured experts delved into the findings of the Center’s latest report, which revealed that the total foreign-born or immigrant population (legal and illegal) was nearly 50 million in October 2023 — a 4.5 million increase since President Biden took office and a new record high. Rich Lowry, editor of the National Review, and Roy Beck, the former president of NumbersUSA, joined Steven Camarota, Center’s director of ...
Founders of Immigration Think Tank in France Discuss French Policies and Trends
December 07, 2023 13:47 - 35 minutes - 48.4 MBThis week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy brings a global perspective to the immigration debate with Nicolas Monti and Maxime Aymar, co-founders of L'Observatoire de l'immigration et de la démographie (OID), an immigration think tank based in Paris. The guests share information on immigration trends, policies, and public sentiment in France. The French organization was founded three years ago in response to the public’s growing distrust in immigration policies in France. France, one ...
Marriage Fraud: In Search of a Green Card
November 30, 2023 16:48 - 27 minutes - 38.1 MBSummaryThis week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy delves into the issue of marriage fraud, an arrangement where individuals enter into marriages solely for the purpose of securing a green card. David North, a fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, joins host and executive director of the Center, Mark Krikorian, to discuss the prevalence and need to curb fraudulent marriage-based green cards. Marriage-based green cards, whether fraudulent or legitimate, make up a large portion o...
The Power of the Freedom of Information Act
November 16, 2023 17:19 - 47 minutes - 65.7 MBOn this week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, we are joined by Colin Farnsworth, the chief FOIA counsel at the Center for Immigration Studies, to discuss a powerful tool that promotes transparency and accountability from federal agencies – the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Farnsworth notes that FOIA essentially “shines a light on government actions.” The FOIA process empowers individuals outside the government to compel the disclosure of information that should be public. Accord...
Biden Administration’s Illegal Immigration System
November 09, 2023 20:45 - 34 minutes - 46.9 MBIn this week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, the Center for Immigration Studies looks at the number of illegal aliens released into the United States by the Biden administration in FY 2023 and their pathways for entry. Andrew Arthur, the Center’s resident fellow in law and policy, joins us for this episode to reveal how the administration permitted 140 percent more illegal aliens than legal immigrants with green cards to enter the country in FY 2023, despite the U.S. Constitution ves...
Immigration Law and National Security: A Tool Against Cartels and Terrorists
November 02, 2023 14:25 - 35 minutes - 48.6 MBIn this week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, the Center for Immigration Studies delves into the critical issue of addressing national security threats posed by foreigners, both legal and illegal, residing in the United States. Podcast guest George Fishman, a senior legal fellow at the Center, discusses legal tools that are available to serve the country in time of crisis. Fishman explores the potential application of the Alien Enemies Act, a federal statute dating back to 1798, to e...
Biden’s Secretive CBP One Scheme
October 26, 2023 13:10 - 41 minutes - 56.4 MBOn this week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy we are joined by Todd Bensman, the Center for Immigration Studies senior national security fellow, to discuss crucial details about the Biden administration’s CBP One scheme revealed as the result of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation by the Center. The data was analyzed in two reports released this week (linked below). The strategy of the CBP One scheme is to let inadmissible aliens who would otherwise cross illegally make an ap...
Is the U.S. Legal Immigration System Outdated?
October 19, 2023 14:50 - 41 minutes - 56.6 MBThe illegal immigration crisis at the southern border overshadows discussion about the existing legal immigration system in the United States. But on this episode of the Center for Immigration Studies’ podcast, Phillip Linderman, a Center board member and retired State Department senior Foreign Service officer, discusses two outdated legal immigration programs, ‘extended’ family reunification and the visa lottery, with guest host Jessica Vaughan, the Center’s director of policy studies. The ...
Unaccompanied and Unsafe: Biden Policies Facilitate Exploitation and Abuse of Child Migrants
October 12, 2023 08:00 - 46 minutes - 64.4 MBThis week’s Parsing Immigration Policy episode raises awareness of a disturbing aspect of the border crisis – a large and increasing number of unaccompanied alien children who are delivered by the government into the hands of labor and sex traffickers. Guest Tara Lee Rodas, a Health and Human Services (HHS) whistleblower who recently testified before Congress, speaks about current U.S. immigration policies and court rulings that lead to the rapid release of unaccompanied minors (UACs) to unve...
Legal and Illegal Immigration: Understanding U.S. High-Skilled Immigration
October 05, 2023 17:55 - 37 minutes - 51.5 MBIn this week’s episode of the Center for Immigration Studies’ Parsing Immigration Policy podcast, the senior editor at The American Conservative, Helen Andrews, delves into the topic of high-skilled immigration and its political, economic, and cultural implications. Andrews, alongside podcast host and the Center’s executive director Mark Krikorian, describes how the H-1B foreign worker program, originally designed to attract highly-skilled workers, has been transformed into a means for outsou...
Work Authorization Expansion: Attracts and Embeds Illegal Immigration Population in U.S. Society
September 28, 2023 08:00 - 31 minutes - 42.8 MBIn this week’s podcast, the Center for Immigration Studies highlights the expansion of work authorization for newly arrived migrants and those who have entered the country illegally. Work permits are an often-ignored part of the discussion on immigration policy but are a major pull factor for immigrants looking to come to the United States illegally. In this episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, Elizabeth Jacobs, the Center’s Director of Regulatory Affairs and Policy, explains the importanc...
Terrorist Entry Through the Southwest Border
September 21, 2023 09:00 - 29 minutes - 41.1 MBThis week's podcast is a rebroadcast of the September 14 House Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement hearing entitled, “Terrorist Entry Through the Southwest Border.” The hearing examined, “the national security implications of the Department of Homeland Security's open-borders agenda, including how the Biden Administration's policies have led to record-high encounters of aliens on the Terrorist Watchlist as well as the mass release of unvetted aliens into U.S. comm...
The Humanitarian Impact of Biden’s Border Policies
September 14, 2023 17:29 - 35 minutes - 48.8 MBOn this episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, we are joined by Sheriff Mark Dannels of Cochise County, Ariz., and Andrew Arthur, Resident Fellow in Law and Policy at the Center for Immigration Studies. Cochise County is located along Arizona’s southeastern border with Mexico, and Sheriff Dannels and his colleagues have had to deal with the border crisis firsthand. This week’s topic is a rather grim one – the deaths of illegal immigrants at the border. Both guests recently testified at a joi...
Policing in Rural Texas: San Jacinto County Sheriff Addresses the Open Border’s Strain on Enforcement
September 08, 2023 12:20 - 23 minutes - 32.6 MBSan Jacinto county is located north of Houston and over 200 miles from the southern U.S.-Mexico border. This rural county and the surrounding areas, including Liberty County, have seen an explosion of migrant settlement and increasing cartel activity. In this week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers joins guest host Todd Bensman to discuss how lax federal border security is straining the ability to police his jurisdiction. Sheriff Capers explains h...
Panel Podcast: Parole and the CBP One App
August 31, 2023 09:05 - 59 minutes - 81.8 MBThe Center for Immigration Studies hosted a panel discussion entitled “Parole and the CBP One App: Fact and Fiction”. Speakers examined the legality of the CBP One App scheme, the number of entries, legal challenges, and the myths put forth about it. Mark Morgan, former Acting Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, joined Center for Immigration Studies experts to discuss how the Biden administration took the CBP One smartphone app – a tool originally designed to smooth legal cro...
Guestworker Programs: Can They Ever Work as Advertised?
August 24, 2023 15:36 - 41 minutes - 57.4 MBCongress created the first guestworker programs to fill labor shortages on a temporary basis, without displacing American workers or abusing the foreign workers. Over time, the programs have multiplied and expanded, such that now close to a million people a year are imported for both less-skilled and professional-level jobs. American workers are, in fact, displaced, the “temporary” foreign workers often stay permanently, and are often exploited. Is it possible for guestworker programs to wor...
Biden’s Illegal Immigration Schemes Hurt the Legal Immigration System
August 17, 2023 09:00 - 38 minutes - 53.4 MBA new government report confirms that the Biden administration’s policies accommodating illegal immigration are harming the legal immigration system. On this week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, Elizabeth Jacobs, the Center for Immigration Studies director of regulatory affairs and policy, joins host Mark Krikorian to discuss the findings and implications of a congressionally mandated annual report from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman, an independent office w...
Do Immigrants Transplant Certain Cultural Traits?
August 10, 2023 09:00 - 33 minutes - 46 MBSeveral studies and books have highlighted how migrants, either within one country or from one to another, transmit certain elements of their culture to their descendants rather than fully assimilating to the new culture. This has been observed in the migration of Southerners within the United States, for example, as well as among immigrants coming from abroad. On this week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, Jason Richwine, resident scholar at the Center for Immigration Studies, joins ...
Does the U.S. Labor Market Really “Need” Immigrants?
August 03, 2023 15:43 - 36 minutes - 50 MBPermissive legal and illegal immigration policies have been shown to hurt the working class in America the most. Yet, the media and corporate America often repeat the myth that there are certain jobs Americans won’t do, and that the U.S. is experiencing a labor shortage. They conclude, therefore, that we need immigrants to fill these gaps, which are predominantly in less-skilled fields. On this episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, Oren Cass, executive director of American Compass and autho...
Potential Crimes of the Biden Administration
July 27, 2023 09:00 - 30 minutes - 41.8 MBThe Center for Immigration Studies recently uncovered what appears to be deliberate participation in alien smuggling by the Department of Homeland Security. Todd Bensman, the Center’s senior national security fellow, revealed the facilitation of illegal entry of large numbers of aliens across the Rio Grande River. George Fishman, the Center’s senior legal fellow, joins Parsing Immigration Policy to examine the legal implications for the Biden administration as he detailed in a recent report. ...
Texas DPS Defends the Border; CBP Helps Migrants Enter
July 20, 2023 16:16 - 39 minutes - 54.3 MBConflict has erupted at the Texas-Mexico border between two different arms of law enforcement – Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). CBP has been instructed by the Biden administration to bring migrants they encounter into the country, after which they are released with a notice to appear, and then put on a bus to an American city of their choosing, essentially assisting migrants in their illegal entry into the U.S. Texas DPS has taken border e...
Washington Subsidizes Sanctuary Cities
July 13, 2023 04:37 - 34 minutes - 47.4 MBSanctuary jurisdictions are states or localities that obstruct the enforcement of immigration laws and shield criminals from federal authorities. And Washington sends millions in funding to them anyway. On this episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, host and Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies Mark Krikorian is joined by the Center’s Director of Policy Studies Jessica Vaughan to discuss a new report that details how much money the federal government has given to sanctuar...
Dissecting the SCOTUS Immigration Decisions
July 06, 2023 15:39 - 40 minutes - 55.6 MBThis week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy examines two recent immigration-related Supreme Court opinions and delves into the implications of those rulings for immigration law enforcement, public safety, and the role of Congress in shaping immigration policy. Andrew Arthur, the Center’s fellow in law and policy, and Hans von Spakovsky, senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation, start the discussion with an analysis of U.S. v. Texas. In Texas, the Court held that the states of Tex...
The Impact of Immigration on Education
June 29, 2023 09:00 - 33 minutes - 46.4 MBThis week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy covers the impact of immigration on the American education system. Two experts from the Center for Immigration Studies join us to discuss this issue. Steven Camarota, Director of Research, talks about the impact of both legal and illegal immigration on public schools throughout the United States, which was the subject of a recent report that provides a visual representation of the impact on the education system in each community. Todd Bensman,...
Immigration Roundup: “Temporary” Protected Status and Kamala Harris Facilitated Child Labor
June 22, 2023 18:10 - 31 minutes - 43.2 MBThis week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy is an immigration roundup, discussing two issues in the news. The conversation highlights the recent extension of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for multiple countries, and how the anti-enforcement efforts of Vice President Kamala Harris when she was in the Senate contributed to a child migrant labor explosion, and the present opportunity to change that policy in the forthcoming DHS funding bill. The Trump administration attempt...
From ESL Teacher to Immigration Enforcement Activist
June 15, 2023 09:00 - 38 minutes - 53 MBThis week’s guest on Parsing Immigration Policy has over 35 years of experience in immigration policy and activism, perhaps more experience than Mark Krikorian, host of the podcast and executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies. Joe Guzzardi is a California native whose journey through immigration activism began when he was teaching English as a second language to adults in the Central Valley. The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, which legalized nearly three million ill...
What is the CBP One App?
June 08, 2023 14:25 - 35 minutes - 48.5 MBThe CBP One app is one of the latest tools the Biden administration is using to funnel illegal immigrants into the United States, while obfuscating the true scope of the border crisis. As Mark Krikorian, host of Parsing Immigration Policy and executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, puts it, the app allows illegal immigrants to “essentially schedule their illegal immigration into the United States.” Andrew Arthur, the Center’s resident fellow in law and policy and a former i...
How U.S. Border Policies Led to Child Labor and Home-Country Financial Instability
June 01, 2023 09:00 - 41 minutes - 57.6 MBThe Guatemalan Highlands have a low homicide rate and strong family and community structure. For those in this region, immigration to the United States is an economic decision and usually means paying smugglers to send a teenage family member to find a job and sending money home – in the past couple of years under the guise of seeking asylum. But the strong appeal of migration northward has had a staggering impact on communities, destabilizing the family structure, putting the minors in harm’...
H-1B Visa Program: Myths and Needed Reforms
May 25, 2023 09:00 - 37 minutes - 51.8 MBThe H-1B visa program, the largest U.S. foreign worker program, was created to provide temporary workers for employers unable to find American or green card workers for a specialty occupation, like computers, engineering, science, and technology. Over time the program has been abused by employers who are not experiencing labor shortages and by outsourcing firms. The result has been the displacement of Americans workers and the exploitation of H-1B workers. There are, however, reforms that ca...
Panel Podcast: Gatekeeper Countries
May 18, 2023 09:00 - 38 minutes - 52.4 MBThe Center for Immigration Studies hosted a panel discussion on Wednesday, April 26, 2023, discussing the present and future role of “gatekeeper countries” in controlling illegal immigration to destination countries in both Europe and North America. The number of illegal arrivals to a country is partly determined by the policies of its neighbors (the “gatekeepers”) in trying to stop, or at least slow, the transit of migrants. In the age of mass illegal migration, gatekeeper states must be pa...
5/11: The End of Title 42
May 11, 2023 09:00 - 31 minutes - 43 MBTitle 42, the public-health rule that allows the Border Patrol to expel border-jumpers without a hearing, ends tonight at 11:59pm. It remains unclear how the Biden administration plans to enforce the border, which is already being flooded by migrants who are crossing by the thousands. Todd Bensman, the Center for Immigration Studies’ Senior National Security Fellow, joins this episode of Parsing Immigration Policy from Matamoros, Mexico, located right across the U.S.-Mexico border from Brown...
What’s In Store for NumbersUSA?
May 04, 2023 10:00 - 33 minutes - 46.5 MBAs a think tank, the Center for Immigration Studies focuses on research and public education regarding America’s immigration policies. NumbersUSA, on the other hand, is a grassroots, citizen-action organization, which seeks to inform and mobilize voters to contact their representatives to share their opinions on immigration policy. James Massa, the new CEO of NumbersUSA, joins us on this episode of Parsing Immigration Policy to share his priorities and vision for the organization. He highlig...
Congress Responds to Biden’s Broken Border
April 28, 2023 15:00 - 40 minutes - 56.2 MBTwo immigration bills are making their way through the House of Representatives, both of which address the Biden border crisis and seek to stem the tide of illegal migration at our Southwest border. To discuss the bills and the potential impact on the border crisis, we are joined on Parsing Immigration Policy by two experts with over thirty years of experience in immigration policy on Capitol Hill. George Fishman, the Center for Immigration Studies’ Senior Legal Fellow, examines the details ...